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Simple Machines: A Novel

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Simple Machines is a novel of passage of myth and unexpected consequence set in Wisconsin during one year in the life of Tomas Zimmermann.

Tomas lives in an apartment above the bike shop owned by his father, Ernst Zimmermann, a war refugee from Germany and a former professional bike racer who is escaping a life of bitter disappointment.

Through high school graduation and over a last summer at home on an island in Lake Superior, Tomas keeps company with Grey and Callie, his best friends since childhood, as they contemplate what will happen next.

In the fall, Tomas leaves the island of Saint Raphael, where he has lived since age of six, and heads south by bike toward an uncertain future.

At school Tom is befriended by a charismatic history professor and through him meets the members of an eccentric guerilla theater group, who are in the midst of a bold theatrical production. As Simple Machines approaches a climax, Grey and Callie reappear with trouble of their own, and Tom is forced to choose between loyalty to his friends and father at home and the college world in which he feels a new sense of belonging.



About the Author :
Ian Morris is the author of the novel When Bad Things Happen to Rich People and co-editor of The Little Magazine in Contemporary America. He lives in Chicago.

Review :
Interview with Ian Morris, author of Simple Machines: INSPIRED INVENTIVENESS: TALKING WITH IAN MORRIS --The Rumpus, https: //therumpus.net/2018/09/the-rumpus-interview-with-ian-morris/ "Simple Machines is a novel motivated by movement. The characters travel on water and trek across land, they immigrate and move through time. They are invested in place like Steinbeck's characters and are irreverent like Kerouac's. Above all, the book focuses on one young man's odyssey: coming of age." --S. Ferdowsi, New City "Morris' characters are quirky and often infuriating, but never forgettable." --Lindsay Harmon, Booklist "The solitariness of biking serves as the metaphor of Zim's experience, both at home and at college. He is a young man with no more than pedal-power for his getaway." --Julian Anderson, Fiction Writers Review "This title has been recommended for young adult readers: YA/General Interest: Morris' coming-of-college-age novel, with its roots in high school and examination of teen bonds that hold even after leaving home will resonant with YAs." --Donna Seaman, Booklist Interview: Book Q&As with Deborah Kalb http: //deborahkalbbooks.blogspot.com/ "Bicycles are simple yet beautiful machines, and so is Ian Morris's latest novel, Simple Machines, which rolls on the timeless moving wheels of sunrises and sunsets; of the wilds of Lake Superior and Wisconsin country roadways; of those who stayed behind and those who break-away; of the mythic struggle between Paul Bunyan and the Big Swede, and of the equally mythic struggle between a father and son coming to terms with each other and with the grief of a mother's bewildering abandonment. Written in a graceful prose style touched at times with the lyricism of F. Scott Fitzgerald, this novel has all the ingredients of a great read, and of a classic in the making." --Joseph G. Peterson, author, Gunmetal Blue "Come listen to the story of Tomas Zimmermann as he navigates the waters between a silent father and the friends and women he should not trust, but somehow does. Hear how Tomas falls and gets back up again." --Charles Rafferty, author, The Smoke of Horses "What a wondrous, immersive experience this novel by Ian Morris! Lyrical and yet consuming with trouble, danger, and fire. And funny, even experimental, farcical, picaresque--how does he do it all?! You will wonder and worry about Tom, Callie, and Grey for many snowy seasons to come." --Steve Yates, author, The Legend of the Albino Farm


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781948721004
  • Publisher: Gibson House
  • Publisher Imprint: Gibson House
  • Height: 215 mm
  • No of Pages: 277
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: A Novel
  • ISBN-10: 1948721007
  • Publisher Date: 29 Nov 2018
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Returnable: N
  • Width: 139 mm


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